• Video: Panthers and Jaguars on Fascism

    On Saturday, February 8th we gathered at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery in Occupied Ohlone lands (San Francisco) to discuss theorizations on fascism from the Zapatistas and Black Panthers.

  • Reporting back to Chiapas

    Jueves 2 de Enero, 5pm en Librería La Cosecha, calle Dr Navarro 7, San Cristóbal de Las Casas

  • In the Medicine portal

    Book launch of Palestine 1492: A Report Back at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery in San Francisco, October 3, 2024

  • Book launch at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery

    Thank you to Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery for the recording:

  • Con la Red Feminismos Descoloniales

    Fue un gran honor dar palabra con Sylvia Marcos y Layla Sanchez Kuri en la nueva serie de conferencias virtuales en el marco del Seminario de Feminismos Descoloniales: “Re-existencia de las mujeres en Palestina contra el genocidio” El miércoles 25 de septiembre de 2024 12:30 pm (hora centro de México) Ver la grabación aquí con…

  • The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy

    It’s thrilling to see released the English translation of Jérôme Baschet’s ¡Rebeldía, resistencia y autonomía! La experiencia Zapatista, out now with AK Press as The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy. The English translation includes some of my efforts, but big shout outs are due to Margaret Cerullo and Stuart Schussler for carrying the entire…

  • A Maya Compass

    Accompanying the maps throughout Palestine 1492 is a compass inspired by Maya ceremonial altars. It is better appreciated on the book cover for its colors where red is east, black is west, yellow is south, white is north.

  • On the orient

    The front cover of Palestine 1492 is a map of the Maya world oriented east, an homage to Chiapas, where in summer 2006 I lived my first heart break over Palestine. East, where the sun rises, is also the direction we face when we begin prayer. Like many Indigenous geographies, Maya geography is oriented east,…

  • Municipalism: A Critical Review

    It was a generative time working with Haley Roeser, Dani Knoll, and Eleanor Finley on this critical assessment on the municipalist moment, from Los Angeles to Vermont to Rojava. Here is the abstract: In recent years, a growing number of popular movements demanding the “right to the city” have come to describe themselves as municipalist…

  • “We Are Equal Because We Are Different”: A Zapatista Women’s Proposal

    Honored to share a special issue with Sarah Ihmoud on “Women and Peace Building” in Peace Policy: Solutions to Violent Conflict from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University. Sarah contributed an essay entitled, “Decolonizing ‘Peace’: Notes Towards a Palestinian Feminist Critique”. My contribution is called “We Are Equal Because We…